From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize custom-file is not useful as it works now Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:40:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <075301c4d9a0$9ef2bf00$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <00be01c4daef$5c11b600$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102297538 28931 80.91.229.6 (6 Dec 2004 01:45:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 01:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 06 02:45:34 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cb7wU-0004TJ-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 02:45:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cb86D-0003gC-67 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:55:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cb84V-0002aY-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:53:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cb84U-0002Zh-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:53:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cb84T-0002Z5-S5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:53:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cb7uU-00069U-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Cb7rL-00014V-5a; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:40:15 -0500 Original-To: "Lennart Borgman" In-reply-to: <00be01c4daef$5c11b600$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30737 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30737 The editing I proposed shows the old entry if any in .emacs marked and asks the user whether to change it. It looks mostly like query replace, but with some more marking. (Though I forgot to add a question when adding.) This could all be made a bit nicer (it is just not quite finished yet) and I realize that many would not want automatic editing of .emacs. And it is a bit scary to do the editing too. However when the user is asked to accept the change and clearly shown what will be done it might perhaps be accepted by most users? This seems like a good argument, so I guess we should try your change.